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Subject[PATCH v3 4/6] x86/stacktrace: do not fail for ORC with regs on stack
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save_stack_trace_reliable now returns "non reliable" when there are
kernel pt_regs on stack. This means an interrupt or exception happened
somewhere down the route. It is a problem for the frame pointer
unwinder, because the frame might not have been set up yet when the irq
happened, so the unwinder might fail to unwind from the interrupted
function.

With ORC, this is not a problem, as ORC has out-of-band data. We can
find ORC data even for the IP in the interrupted function and always
unwind one level up reliably.

So lift the check to apply only when CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled.

[v2]
- rewrite the code in favor of Josh's suggestions

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 6acf1d5ca832..7627455047c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ __save_stack_trace_reliable(struct stack_trace *trace,
* unreliable.
*/

- return -EINVAL;
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER))
+ return -EINVAL;
}

addr = unwind_get_return_address(&state);
--
2.16.3
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